Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-18

said: 81 was not in Congress at the time
and OF course my connection with the road
was Legitimate"
Mrs. Logan's Home.
WASHINGTON, January 17th.-The citi-
zens of Chicago having contributed $4,000
to the fund il payment of the incum
brances now resting upon the home of Mrs.
Logan in this city, Colonel NJ. NJ. Parker
to-day called on her, and obtaining from
her check on Riggs & Co., paid off the
notes. Later in the day he presented Mrs.
Logan the cancelled notes, and she now
owns the house known as Calumet place,
on Columbia Heights, free from all incum-
brances. 1t is expected that the movement
for monument to General Logan will
originate either with the Grand Army Post
or the Army of the Tennessee. The latter
body meets in Detroit in September next,
and it is probably that the movement will
take prominent shape then.
A Bill to Reduce Revenues.
WASHINGTON, January 17th.-A confer
ence of protection Democrats will be held
tomorrow night, at which it is expected
Representatives will be present III the to-
bacco and fruit brandy interests A bill is
said to be nearly completed which will
considerably reduce the surplus revenues,
and which will be placed before those pres
ent tomorrow night. 1t repeals all tobacco
taxes, materially modities, if it does not
repeal altogether, the tax on fruit brandies
repeals the tax on alcohol used in the arts
adds certain articles to the free list and re-
duces the duty on others. The most not
able case in which it is proposed to reduce
the customs duty is in steel rails. where the
duty is to be lowered from SIS to S12 or Sl3.
One of the most prominent protection
Democrats said tonight that the duty on
manufacturers combine and keep the price
of steel rails several dollars above what it
should be.
Washington Notes.
WASHINGTON, January 17th-Senator
Fair introduced a bill in the Senate to-day
to establish a system of range lights in
Oakland harbor, which was referred to the
Commerce Committee.
At 8 o'clock this evening DR.. Bliss re-
ported Representative Cox's condition as
considerably improved since the morning
consultation.
The Secretary of the Interior has in
dOrSed the request of the United States At
torney for Wyoming for additional counsel
to assist in the trial of certain causes pend
ing in that Territory against parties for
Illegal fencing of portions of the public
domain.
Miss Clara Barton, President of the Amer
ican National Red Cross Association, will
go this week to Texas to make personal
investigation of the condition and needs of
the sufferers from the Texas drought of
last summer and the preceding year. They
are said to number $4,000, and their wants
for food and clothing, as well as for seed,
etc, are reported to be extremely urgent.
The Secretary of the Treasury to-day
transmitted to Congress estimates for the
deficiency in the appropriation for the
maintenance of the Government for the
fiscal year 1887 and prior years, aggre-
eating 81 279,995.
The McGlynn Trouble.
NEW YORK, January 17th.-It was Father
Donnelly's intention to announce himself
as priest of the church yesterday, but on
account of the manifest feeling be post
poned the announcement until next Sum-
day. Many church members declare he
will then be forced to abandon services.
Several anonymous letters of a threatening
character were received by Father Donnelly
this morning. A noticeable effect of the
general discomfort in church was the fail
ure Of any of the parishioners to contribute
flowers yesterday to decorate the altar. 1t
was the feast of the Holy name of Jesus
The chancel always has been decorated this
day, but owing to the absence of the women
who formerly took care of the chancel, even
the lights on the throne where the Sacra-
ment stood were unlighted for the first time
in twenty years.
New York Senatorship.
ALBANY, January 17th.-The Democratic
legislative caucus tonight agreed upon
Smith NJ Weed, of Plattesburgh, as its
candidate for United States Senator.
THE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS.
ALBANY, January 17th.-In the Repub-
lican caucus the first ballot for United
States Senator resulted as follows Senator
Warner Miller A; Hon. Levi P. Morton,
35; Hon. Frank Hiscock, II. Total, 81.
An Ocean Yacht Race.
New YORK, January 17th.-C. H. Cole,
owner of the yacht Dauntless, has accepted
the challenge of Captain Bush, owner of
the Coronet. for a race across to Queens
town next March for wager of $4,000.
Deserving of Help.
New YORK, January 1Sth-A. MA
Pittsburg dispatch says: A reporter has
discovered that Charen Heyser, who was
carrier of private dispatches for Abraham
Lincoln, and held the Presidents hand
when he laid wounded in Ford's Theater
in Washington, is in this city in distressed
circumstances. His occupation is that of